Hi all,

wondering if I'm doing something wrong. I'm new to the task scheduler (and fairly new to Umbraco in general) and I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing.

I've created an API controller which contains a method in which I perform a couple of node lookups and deletes (specific content types that are marked for deleteion). Just included the header for reference, if anyone needs more info I'll add it.

    [HttpGet]
    public string CheckAndDeleteExpiredEvents()
    {
       ....
    {

Now I want to schedule this method to run every 60 minutes (currently every minute for development purposes). I've modified the scheduledTasks section in config\umbracoSettings.config the following way:

<scheduledTasks>
<!-- add tasks that should be called with an interval (seconds) -->
<!--    <task log="true" alias="test60" interval="60" url="http://localhost/umbraco/test.aspx"/>-->
<task log="true" alias="DeleteExpiredEvents" interval="60" url="http://website.local/umbraco/api/ContentApi/CheckAndDeleteExpiredEvents"/>

(there's a scheduledTasks closing tag but the code sample seems relucatant to show it)

I've edited the web.config and also restarted the application pool, but it won't run my task. Calling this URL manually does exactly what the method should do and I confirmed there are no exceptions (and now I see some of my own logging from the method in the Umbraco logs). I've checked the logs some further and could find no entries of even trying to run my task, even after an hour of waiting (saw a couple of posts where people suggested it could take a while for the scheduler to intially "kick in").

It seems it just doesn't register my task as far as I can tell cause logging was set to true for the task and it doesn't even generate an error mentioning it. Am I missing something somewhere?

Umbraco version is 7.2.5 btw.